http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-io.popen

Lua Manual 5.1 wrote:This function is system dependent and is not available on all platforms.

So, nope, looks like it's not available on Mac.

kikito wrote:"Algorithm" is not a four-letter word

Great link! It looks like I happened to make something similar to that "growing tree" algorithm.

What if I made this game by myself. Would you all be impressed or something? Honestly, I'd be impressed with any kind of MMO being made in Love2D, no matter who made it or how it was done. I'm impressed whenever anyone makes a good, fun game without a publisher's backing, no matter what size the te...

I have the nasty habit of writing a fresh class library with every project I have, but I've taken on a pattern. Before I try to formalize it into my own goto like kikito's middleclass, I wanted to get a couple of points of feedback on it. When I find myself reusing code in multiple projects, I tend...

I wrote something very similar, once. But mine didn't do it in a thread - you could watch it spreading and drawing the whole thing. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3713769/temp/love%202011-10-09%2017-19-37-89.png Tweaking the parameters, you can get things that look like circuits, coral, and other textures....

First off, you posted in the wrong subforum. This should go in General. Second, how is it "hiring" if you're not paying anyone? Third, you're making an MMO? How many games have you made already? Fourth, on a related note, what will you, yourself, be developing in this game? You see, many p...

In my humble opinion, you should give your image font an appropriate alpha layer (ie., alpha -> from brightness), fill the image with white (unless you want outlines or something), and use normal alpha blending mode. Using modulate blend mode just to get rid of a black background is not how to do it...

If you want to use Tserial, your code would look like this: local savename = hero.name .. ".sav" -- save hero table to file love.filesystem.write( savename, Tserial.pack(hero) ) -- load hero table from file hero = Tserial.unpack( love.filesystem.read( savename ) ) Tserial is nice because i...

Sorry about that. We have a huge problem with spam in these forums (450 spam posts in the last 24 hours alone!), so all first-time posters are required to have their posts approved by a moderator. Naturally, under such a deluge of spam, real posts are sometimes accidentally disapproved. But now that...

All I see is a white box. Looks like PO2 Syndrome strikes again! (Wasn't Love 0.8.0 supposed to end that?) To fix the white box issue, you need to ensure your images have dimensions that are a power of 2. So an image sized 256x512 would be okay, but 200x500 would not. This is the PO2 sequence: 1, 2,...